This forum is now a read-only archive. All commenting, posting, registration services have been turned off. Those needing community support and/or wanting to ask questions should refer to the Tag/Forum map, and to http://spring.io/questions for a curated list of stackoverflow tags that Pivotal engineers, and the community, monitor.

Motoactv

The app is quite large, containing dozens of activities, and doing a lot of online, offline work, and background work. I believe this app is one of the most complex, if not the most complex, Android app on the market right now.

Spring Android Rest Template is used used by the Android app for all web service communications. The incredibly ease of use and flexible configuration made Rest Template a clear winner over the alternatives. Content type negotiating was really great - we used it to switch to SMILE instead of JSON to save bandwidth whenever possible.